New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change
New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change

Author: James A. Beckford

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1986-11-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781446233306

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"The book shows how rapid social change gives rise to novel religious interpretations and how new religious movements, in turn, try to influence the process of change. This analysis is illustrated by studies of the advanced societies of North America and Europe, of Japan during the first phase of industrialization, and of countries and regions in the developing world. New religious movements are revealed as a normal aspect of social life and as critical indicators of social change. This is reflected in each movement's social composition, teachings, values, religious practices and organizational structures as well as their engagement in politics, business and their structuring of social relationships."--Publisher's description.

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Social Organization of Religion
Gale Researcher Guide for: The Social Organization of Religion

Author: Richard G. Ellefritz

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1535860618

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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Social Organization of Religion is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Religion, the Social Context
Religion, the Social Context

Author: Meredith B. McGuire

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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McGuire provides students with an integrated overview of the subject and a useful basis for critical evaluation.

Claiming Society for God
Claiming Society for God

Author: Nancy Jean Davis

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0253002346

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Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox, fundamentalist movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming civil society. Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson tell the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States. They show how these movements build massive grassroots networks of religiously based social service agencies, hospitals, schools, and businesses to bring their own brand of faith to popular and political fronts.

Regulating Religion
Regulating Religion

Author: James T. Richardson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 1441990941

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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.

New Religions in Global Perspective
New Religions in Global Perspective

Author: Peter Bernard Clarke

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780415257480

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This volume provides a complete guide to the global impact and cultural significance of new religious movements.

History, Time, Meaning, and Memory
History, Time, Meaning, and Memory

Author: Barbara Jones Denison

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9004215611

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This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have today brought a renaissance to the field.

Social Science and the Cults
Social Science and the Cults

Author: John A. Saliba

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-20

Total Pages: 958

ISBN-13: 0429662904

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This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture, focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on traditional sects that are sometimes compared to the new religions, and many studies of individual contemporary cults.